Nintendogs, Pilotwings and more will be available in the months following the U.S. launch of Nintendo 3DS on March 27, Nintendo said Wednesday.
At a press briefing in New York City, Nintendo said it would launch its 3-D gaming handheld for $250 at the end of March. It said that 30 games would be available for the system between launch day and the E3 Expo in early June, but it declined to say when any of those games would launch.
From Nintendo itself, Nintendogs + Cats, Pilotwings Resort and the submarine game Steel Diver are pegged as "launch window" titles. The most popular games from the 3DS' E3 debut, like Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3-D and Kid Icarus: Uprising, will not be launched in that early time frame.
Nintendo also said that the following games are "coming soon" from its third-party publishers, intimating that most of these should make that early three-month window.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (Capcom)
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D (Capcom)
Madden NFL Football (EA Sports)
The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D (Konami)
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (LucasArts)
Ridge Racer 3D (Namco Bandai)
Dual Pen Sports (Namco Bandai)
Super Monkey Ball 3D (Sega)
Thor: God of Thunder (Sega)
Crush 3D (Sega)
Bust-a-Move Universe (Square Enix)
Samurai Warriors Chronicles (Tecmo Koei)
Dead or Alive Dimensions (Tecmo Koei)
Asphalt 3D (Ubisoft)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Shadow Wars (Ubisoft)
Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D (Ubisoft)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell 3D (Ubisoft)
Rayman 3D (Ubisoft)
Rabbids Travel in Time (Ubisoft)
